While researching my next dream toy, I came across a relatively new cartridge, the .376 Steyr.
I am very intrigued with this newcomer.
I have read it is becoming popular with African hunters. If anyone has info as to its perfomance, please advise. Thanks in advance..

Welcome to the Forums
Do a search, in the forum, for 376 and mexican.. I put a nice one together. There's a couple VERY happy, cool, secert club members,,, and then there's the others that have a 375 HH....

Jeffe

What part of Oklahoma are you from? I live in the Tulsa area and I have a 376 Steyr Pro Hunter.

Shootin,

Slingster and I both hunt with the .376 Steyr: he has the scout model and I have the ProHunter. We have both shot eland with this cartridge.

If you want a ProHunter, CDNN was selling them for $449.

jim dodd

Jim, Cdnn still has them but the stock is getting low. Still you cant beat that little gun for that low $. I am looking for extra mags for my prohunter in .243 if you come across them. I am pretty well set on the 376 except for brass. It is starting to trickle in from various backorders. Please tell Eric to contact me when he gets time if you talk to him. Im intersted in his new and improved sling.

Thanks guys great info.
Jeffe thats one dream down the road - to put together my own custom
I,m in Broken Arrow, GonHuntin and have seen the prohunter and the scout - Both AWESOME.
Thanks to all.

Shootin, I picked up my 376 as well as the 243 prohunter a year ago. I had talked to Jim, Eric and others about the 376 and did some looking on my own. I took the 376 to Africa with me and it exceeded all my expectations. It is short, light and easily handled. It is great for the thick bushveld. As far as performance, the cartridge will perform just slightly less than a 375 HH in the short barreled weapons. It certainly put whatever I shot with it in the dirt in a hurry. The gun Jeffe made is a longer barrel built on a mauser action. He can get the same performance as a 375 with the longer barrel. He can tell you more on that. All I can tell you is if you can afford $450.00 get one while they are still available at that price. These are only this cheap beacause they are the closeout from the old importer. Once these are gone the prices will be back up to normal.

I believe it is a neat well balanced round and would hunt any dangerous game with it...I personally don't like the gun itself, just not my cup of tea, but one on a nice Mauser action has a whole lot of merit IMO....But since I have a couple of 9.3's and a couple of 375's I doubt that a 376 is in the cards anytime soon....

Is the .376 going to be discontinued? I e-mailed Hornady and haven't gotten a response. On the Steyr-Mann. website they don't list the .376 as an available caliber. Any thoughts. I am interested in the caliber but not if it's going to fade away.

I talked to a contact at the Steyr-Mannlicher factory, and they will do another run of .376 ProHunters if they get enough orders. S-M was thinking of a line of cartridges based on the .376 case as they did the last time around in a previous century with their 56mm M-S cartridges.

Hornady continues to make and sell ammunition and dies. I think a lot of .376 Steyr brass has been consumed by wildcatters building XXX-.376 Steyr wildcats. By the way Hornady is not exactly responsive when it comes to answering mail.

I bought 100 rounds of ammunition with my rifle, and I ordered 300 empty brass cartridges from Graf & Sons this week. There will always be .375" bullets out there, so reloading will always be a source of ammunition.

At least one European maker is chambering for the .376 Steyr as well.

jim dodd

[ 02-20-2003, 08:52: Message edited by: HunterJim ]

Even if the 376 is discontinued,( I doubt it) we can always make the brass from something else. Just an extra step or two.

I called Hornady today. They said that they don't have plans to discontinue .376 Steyr any time soon; they also said that there has be alot of interest in this cartridge lately. What we really need is "Big Green" or "Big Red" to stop all this WSM, WSSM, SAUM, stuff, and chamber the .376! The ballistics sure look good out of short barrels.